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Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Please add to this if you can.
Links
Time/Map: https://time.is/Ukraine
Leftist discussion threads:
https://hexbear.net/post/177324
https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/t03foy/genzedong_russiaukraine_master_discussion_thread/
Twitter military updaters:
https://nitter.net/ASBMilitary
https://nitter.net/Militarylandnet
https://nitter.net/MihajlovicMike
https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael
https://nitter.net/TadeuszGiczan/status/1498673348183744518
Global South Perspective: https://nitter.net/kiranopal_/status/1498723206496145413
Better war/propaganda analysis:
https://www.understandingwar.org
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
News updates:
https://www.cgtn.com/special/UkraineCrisis.html
Live: https://www.cgtn.com/special/Live-update-Ukraine-Russia-border-crisis.html
YT/Video in Ukraine:
Thank you.
Previous megathreads:
This just in: an American Reddit volunteer has just halted the Russian advance by exposing the logical fallacies that were being used in justifying the invasion.
Some people literally want to watch the world burn.
People really seem believe Putin’s going to move onto Poland next and then beyond across Europe. They’ve lost their minds.
My dad thinks Putin is the new Hitler who will invade Poland, the Baltics, Finland etc. just because he is a “mad dictator”.
Even if that were the case, Poland is a NATO and EU member. That’ll trigger a larger war automatically. There’s no point rushing into a potential nuclear conflict on a what if.
I know, it’s ludicrous. This is a war to specifically avoid what Russia sees as an otherwise certain confrontation with NATO so instead they’re going to… (checks notes) … try to conquer a country already in NATO.
So, about those jets the EU promised to send Ukraine. Well, they’re not coming.
Good, they’d just be shot down instantly. It would be such a waste to send them over.
Also good to prevent further escalation
Yeah, and the Mig 29 has a very short fuel limited range by modern fighter standards. It’s why Russia does not use it anymore. With all the airfields in Ukraine bombed, and Russian air defence and air superiority, it would be impossible to operate.
the eastern European countries are looking infinitely more sensible than the western ones right now
:michael-laugh:
Do you think he promised them without realising they’d have to be ones that the Ukrainians can already fly? Not thinking that they’d likely come from the poorer, underrepresented EU countries who probably aren’t going to gleefully hand over millions in hardware to the clown next door, especially if he might lose and a Russia friendly state ends up on their border.
I also can’t imagine the logistics of it. Do they fly them in? Are they claiming to be a noncombatant while they’re flying a fighter jet into occupied airspace? Or do they drive them in? In that case, who wants to be the guy who drives that big fat juicy target over the border into occupied territory? It sounds like a suicide run to me. Or does the donor country allow Ukrainian military pilots to take off from their own territory? Sounds like an invitation for some cruise missles to arrive at whatever airfield they departed from.
The only good thing about the development of a totally encompassing media that lowers your attention span due to all the competing interests and corporations vying for it is that, as this is essentially a slow-drip TV series where Putin is the evil Russian villain, most of the west will get bored within the next week or two. Putin simply isn’t ordering massive strikes and such that would keep your attention span focussed on it, he’s being incredibly deliberate.
Wouldn’t matter much anyway, before I went to bed last night I saw a video of SU-34s flying low over Ukraine. No mig is competing with those planes
Su 34 is a ground attack aircraft though. It can defend itself relatively well in air to air combat apparently, but it’s primary role is still ground attack.
It’s basically a ground attacker that doesn’t need an escort.
